Saturday, February 27, 2010

The Super Market is UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!!

Under Construction, just a mere TWO blocks from the Flats at Girard Pointe is this awesome supermarket - the hub of an immense, 21st-century retail-and-residential hive including two high-rise apartment towers, townhouses, a hotel, a garage, and a one-acre green park on the former Schmidt's brewery site . The innovative design by New York's Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners will not only provide the neighborhood with much-needed services, but it promises to restore an urban street wall along Girard Avenue and Second Street.

When fully built, the dense development will cover the entire 8.5-acre block where C. Schmidt & Sons once fermented and bottled Philadelphia's most ubiquitous taproom lager. A new master plan, prepared by Beyer Blinder Belle and vetted by city planners, calls for a total of 600 residential units, 978 parking spaces, and 110,000 square feet of retail.

Schmidts North, as some are calling the new development, will be arranged so that all five sides of the irregularly shaped block are lined with buildings and active ground floor uses. The edges will start low, in deference to neighboring rowhouses, and build up to a height of 26 stories on the site's southern edge, next to Blatstein's Piazza at Schmidts development. A one-acre landscaped park will eventually tie Blatstein's Liberty Walk, and his egg-shaped office tower at Germantown Avenue, into the future development.




Sunday, February 21, 2010

WINNING FORMULA!!!

Check out the Flats' in Today's Inquirer on the Front Page of the Business Section!

Start small, build green, price it right, work with your neighbors, and, even better, buy a unit and live there.

The result: the Flats at Girard Pointe at Third Street and Germantown Avenue in Kensington, just above Northern Liberties. The eco-friendly project of five townhouses and four condos, begun in early 2008 on an 8,000-square-foot lot bought from the city Redevelopment Authority, commands prices of $300,000 to $450,000.

Click on the link below to read the whole article and be sure to stay tuned to our Blog, Facebook and Twitter Pages for exciting updates about opportunities to purchase, ways to contribute to our Community Initiatives, our state of the art virtual modeling that is coming soon and our Public Art Project!

http://www.philly.com/philly/business/homepage/20100221_Builder_s_winning_formula.html

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Award Winning Flats at Girard Pointe



The Flats at Girard Pointe's Phase I has won a National Association of Home Builder's Award for Excellence in Design and is completely Sold Out. Completed just a few months ago, these award winning Energy Star Certified modules have been featured in several Green Tours, most notably that of the Building Industry Association of Philadelphia. Also, having been presented as a Case Study for successful Public/Private Partnerships, the Flats at Girard Pointe are poised to storm into 2010 with groundbreaking excitement.